Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5.
Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed his name to Cromwell.
Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5.
Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed his name to Cromwell.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Cromwell
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell p...
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell p...
The plaque fails to explain why it is on this particular spot. Cromwell's fa...
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
The church website has done a very thorough job on the history not just of the memorial but the church and the area so we quote them here on the background to the martyrs: "In 1553 Queen Mary Tudor...
Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011). Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Master mariner. Born Southampton. From Hellfire Corner : Captain of the Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Brussels, he in utter defiance of the Germans continued to work the Rotterdam-Briti...
See Farquar Shaw for the story of the Black Watch mutiny.
Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck, 1873 - 1956, theologian, teacher and philosopher, lived here, 1945 - 1956. Erected by the Association of Jewish Refug...
George Basevi, 1794 - 1845, architect, lived here. London County Council
The Strand underpass is a one-way vehicle tunnel connecting Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway near Holborn. Opened in 1964, most of it was buil...
Plaque unveiled by Mike Leigh director of the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy.
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